woooo woooo

So I am still feeling like death times 54953 but I am SOOO excited that I will be on my way home on Wed (even though home in the U.S. and even worse AZ). Flight from Bariloche back to BsAs...airport transfer to the other BsAs airport with my 343 pounds of luggage (that will be fuuun)...marathon flight from BsAs to Dallas then Dallas to Tucson...woooo. It´s def 4:30 in the morning here, but I took a xanex and slept allll day today (heavenly...thank god for xanex) so I can´t sleep anymore and I´m super bored. It snoweddddd all last night and today!! Yay...fresh snow (Crazy how I spent over a month on the beach and then a week later I´m in snow). I´m hoping to feel well enough to make it up to the mountain tommorow to take some pictures and see what I´m missing (so sad that I missed out on some prime snowboarding...knee deep powder I hear). I can´t wait to go to the doctor Fri and hopefully find out what is wrong with me...I want to get bettter and it´s so hard to do here without the comfort of home.

I literally cannot believe that I am leaving South America on Wed...if I could bring my family and friends with me to Brazil I would be going back there instead of home (because it is like my new home). I will be so sad to leave because these last two months have been the most amazing months of my entire life. All my pictures and words cannot do justice in explaining what this has meant to me. It will take me some time to get used to being back in the states and I will probably be in denial that I will have to be in Tucson when I could be in Brazil. I am so in love with Brazil...can´t wait to get back to my Salvador and spend more time in Rio and travel the whole country. Argentina does not even compare (sorrry!!!) but Brazil is way more beautiful and the people and language and culture are all so amazing.

This whole trip has taught me so much...I feel like I gained like 5 more years in wisdom and life experience. You can go to school your whole life and never learn as much as you do when you travel to new countries and see and experience different cultures and people. I can´t wait to graduate and travel the whole world. I will never forget this trip and how amazing it´s been, but I´m looking forward to lots more!

More :( :( :(

I am pretty much HATING life right now...seriously. I am in the freaking Andes and I can´t even get myself out of bed let alone snowboard. I worked up enough energy today to take a shower (yayyy) and go out to the store (and find a phone to call my family and bawl about how shitty I feel). I stopped taking a certain medication that I´ve been taking for a while and my body is going through some serious withdrawls so I´m delaing with headaches that you cannot imagine and so much dizziness and fatigue that I can´t go like an hour without sleeping. I´m also just completely and totally drained from all this travel and climate change. My body cannot handle this...I feel like I want to die. I´ve been drinking tons of water and vitamin C and just convincing myself that I´m feeling better...but it´s not really helping. I´m so upset that my trip is ending like this...but I can´t wait to get home and see a real doctor and get better. I finally got to talk to my family and besties today so that made me feel a little better...just hearing their voices makes me smile...5 more days.

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So I think today was my worst day yet here. I definitely passed out in the subway station and had to go to the hospital in a super cool ambulance...I don´t remember much of it because I was pretty unconscious. Em is being really good to me and the doctors were so sweet, but I just want to be home...I´ve been feeling so sick and I guess I just collapsed from exhaustion today. The worst part is that I´m flying out to one of the best places to snowboard in South America tomorrow and the doctor told me not to do anything but sleep. I am so sad that I probably won´t get to snowboard...but I have to focus on getting my body better.

We went to this amazing club last night...I´ve never seen anything like it, it was designed by the same creator of the Eiffel tower. It looks really discreet from the outside then you walk in and it´s this huge place with huge screens on the screen showing snowboarding and music blasting. Lots of fun.

I want to be homeeee!!!! One more week!!!

FREEEEZING!!

So I am officialy freeeezing here...it is so freaking cold...like the winters in Tucson but worse. Saw more of the city today and I love it...it´s just like Manhattan...my dream city. We went to this market in the morning and it was cool...lots of antiques but it wasn´t all set up because it was early. We went to the first soccer game of the season too...crazy and super cold standing for hours. The Argentines love their soccer...just like the Brazilians and all of South America.

We met some Irish guys...my favorite part of staying in hostels and traveling is meeting all sorts of people from all over the world. We met these gorgegous guys from Barcelona that speak some English too...maybe I can meet up with them when I go to Madrid hehe. I am just a little boy crazy here...thank god for the single status. Whenever we run into people that speak English it´s super exciting. And there is a guy at our hostel that is Bahian from Salvador!!! So exciting...someone to talk about Salvador and speak Portuguese with!

So I´m not totally crazy about being so cold but I´m looking forward to snowboarding in like 5 days and seeing more of Buenos Aires before then. Can´t wait to get back home and see everyone...it will be weird going back to reality. And I will miss meeting all these cute international guys ;) It´s so nice to hang out with non-American guys and people in general.

Holaaaa

So I am officially not in Brazil anymore...and freezing my ass off. I left the beautiful beaches and perfect weather in Rio for 4 degrees celcius, but I`m sure I will love it here in Buenos Aires. I have yet to explore because we got in late afternoon and checked into our hostel (which is super nice...in the SoHo area of BsAs). Rio was amazing...so beautiful. We saw the big Jesus (yaaa too bad I´m Jewish but whatever...it´s one of the wonders of the world) and Sugarloaf which was breathtaking. Also hit up Copacobana and Ipanema...4 days was definitely not enough there, I´ll have to go back. It`s kind of like Manhattan with a beach and Portuguese (and more crime)...perfect minus the crime part. Oh and we were going to go into a favela with a friend that volunteers teaching English but we couldn´t because there was a huge police raid earlier that day (since the PAN games just ended...the police are moving in again).

I can`t wait to get back to Brazil...it´s so hard trying to speak Spanish after over a month of only Portuguese...I like Portuguese so much better ;) I am completely in love with everything Brazilian and wish I could have stayed much longer. Buuut, BsAs should be good and Bariloche will be amazing (snowboarding on the Andes...woooo yeah). And everything is way cheaper in Argentina...that´s a big plus. I´m not looking forward to going back to the U.S. at all (only to see my family and friends). South America is wonderful!

Beijos...Besos...whatever you prefer...Tchau!